Magic Carpet Slide

[Minnie Pendergast]

As if things weren’t already bad enough Minnie belatedly recognised the poor gentleman that was being dragged along by the runaway magic carpet as being Aldous Crouch, who on the plus side she did not know well, but on the downside was not likely to think well of her after this incident. Panicking about that impression, and of course the increasingly erratic course of the carpet, Minnie wrapped her hand around Mr Crouch’s forearm to steady herself as she tried to reach for her wand.

“I have no idea how to stop it. Where has the man gone?” Surely the gentleman who had been peddling the carpets would know how to stop such a thing? Otherwise he had no business being here at all and surely somebody ought to be monitoring such things-

Oh yes, that somebody was Mr Crouch. Merlin, they were in trouble.

“Do you have any idea of a spell to slow us down without plummeting to the ground?”